Dr. Maitland, supposedly a renown psychiatrist, says that Helen Reed is schizophrenic, when she is actually suffering from multiple personality disorder (now known as dissociative identity disorder).
Perry: Homicide won't need a Joseph to interpret this dream.
Director Andrew V. McLaglen is the son of Oscar winning actor Victor McLaglen.
Dukes of Hazzard fans will recognize Denver Pyle making his first of several guest appearances on the show. Pyle would return in TCOT Renegade Refugee, TCOT Jealous Journalist, TCOT Shifty Shoebox, TCOT Ominous Outcast, and TCOT Final Fadeout.
Guest star Constance Ford would appear twice more on the show in TCOT Potted Planter and TCOT Shifty Shoebox. Ford would later go onto portray matriarch Ada Davis for many years on the daytime drama, Another World, until her untimely death from cancer in 1992.
This is the first episode in the series not based on one of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels or short stories.
Perry: Homicide won't need a Joseph to interpret this dream. This is a reference to the character of Joseph in the Book of Genesis who was known as an interpreter of dreams. (see Genesis 41).
This episode which features a woman who has multiple personalities was obviously inspired by the classic 1957 film Three Faces of Eve.
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